Atom bank today launched 3 and 5 year savings accounts to add to their existing 1 and 2 year accounts
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Strangely, the only mention that I can find from Atom on this was a retweet, anyway, here’s the article they shared
Yes and on LinkedIn they just linked to that too
It is on their website as well. Strangely their marketing dept seem to be asleep as they don’t seem to ever communicate with their customers to tell them about these (new) products?!
I invested in a savings account with them a while ago (so I’m a customer), but learn about their products here? Seems odd.
I’ve read they’re not overly switched on with customer interaction, unlike Monzo already are. Monzo seem light years ahead with customer service and interaction.
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Looks like Monzo’s on a bit of a roll here 
a key player in refactoring our concept of personal financial services/banking which gets a commendation for 2016 performance (nigh on 84,000 customers from a standing start) is Monzo which gets my award fot [sic] Best Fintech To Watch 2017
http://londonfintechpodcast.com/lfp068-the-london-fintech-podcasts-2016-highlights-and-2017-awards/
You can listen to Tom’s recent interview with the London FinTech podcast here -
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Curve have released their rewards program
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That’s a grade C iPhone from eBay if I’ve ever seen it. Surely their marketing department could have done a bit better? If I were the CEO I’d be inviting the marketing person to my office for a chat!
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I’ve just had a look at the Curve app, looks very slick and make sense. I wonder if this is something that Monzo will be offering??
This is something which would be very welcome at Monzo, cash back plus free foreign spending.
Be interesting to see what the powers that be at Monzo think about this, it can be offered elsewhere so I guess it can be done by Monzo? It would be great if they could. I’m aware Monzo want to be different, but taking the best parts of other ideas and moulding them into Monzo has to be a winner!!?
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A YTS lad or lass or school leaver with no experience in marketing I would think!
I’m not suggesting everyone has £700 lying around for a brand spanking new iPhone, but I’m sure Metro’s marketing budget could have stumped up a bit more. Maybe curbing the biscuits at the CEO’s meetings might have helped??
Oh well, if they are showing they’re not bothered, gets their customers thinking about somebody more professional, that’ll put them Monzo’s way!!
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This is something Monzo have mentioned before. And is something I think their head of partnerships will be responsible for
https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/496544#.WHfsR7GcZBw https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/496544#.WHfsR7GcZBw
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Let’s hope so, that would be a great idea for Monzo, one that I would welcome (cash back) and I’m sure many others as well. Hopefully the new Head of Partnerships will be able to sort this for us all. Interesting times ahead.
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Did i hear correctly at just after 31mins in (wouldnt let me scroll back)… “passion capital have invested £12m and a bunch of investors about to invest a lot more” 
hope that bunch includes me!!!
Yes you did 
There’s more details here -
And that’s all we know for now…
I guess this is now commonplace amongst the newer banks. They also advertise 2 cards per account, so that leaves Monzo open to give us the 2 different card colours if you want!! Hot coral (and/or navy) to swap as the mood takes you, liking it. Come on Monzo.
only issue with using Curve card with Monzo is it loses a lot of the benefit of Monzo of automatic categorizing of expenditure and retailer details
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Clydesdale are to close 40 branches and Yorkshire Bank are to close 40 branches.
[Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank to close dozens of branches http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-38669280](Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank to close dozens of branches http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-38669280)
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Looks sweet. I hadn’t seen Revolut before
Edit: Signed up, tells you to top up £10 before you can order a card. And then after you’ve topped up it then tells you there is a £12 delivery charge.
WeSwap is also interesting concept